Samuel Johnson Woolf
Renowned portraitist and war artist-correspondent
Born in New York City into a family long active in the arts, Woolf was a portrait artist and printmaker. He studied at the Art Students League and at the National Academy of Design under Kenyon Cox and George deForest Brush. He is best known for his portraits, some commissioned by Collier's magazine, and others paired with interviews that appeared in The New York Times in the 1920s. Wolf served as an artist-correspondent during both World Wars I and II. His work was widely exhibited and resides in the permanent collections of numerous public and private institutions. He died at New York City.
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Master student
- Kenyon Cox Master
- George deForest Brush Master
Artworks by this artist
- Irving Berlin 1944
- Sir Ronald Charles Lindsay c. 1930
- William Curtis Bok 1933
- Sophie Tucker c. 1935
- John Raskob c. 1930
- Max Reinhardt 1927
- Elihu Root 1926
- Learned Hand c. 1920-1930
- Major General Frank W. Coe 1918
- Mary Beard 1940
- Rudy Vallee c. 1930
- Walt Disney 1938
- Mary Melinda Kingsbury Simkhovitch 1932
- Pauline Morton Sabin 1932
- Byron Patton Harrison 1933
- Oscar Hammerstein II 1946
- Carrie Chapman Catt 1939
- George N. Peek 1933
- Henry John Kaiser 1944
- Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky 1928